If you're ever worried that poetry is dying or already in the ground we stand on, you are obviously not reading the work of S. Preston Duncan. He can appeal to the academic and to the dishwasher. The jockey and the stall cleaner. Preston reminds us that

“If you're ever worried that poetry is dying or already in the ground we stand on, you are obviously not reading the work of S. Preston Duncan. He can appeal to the academic and to the dishwasher. The jockey and the stall cleaner. Preston reminds us that no matter who we are, we are alive in this beautiful world and its beauty has mostly nothing to do with us.”

- Ryan Kent, author of Everything Is On Fire: Selected Poetry 2014-2021 and the album Dying Comes With Age (Rare Bird Lit)

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